Speaker Bios

Mike Wessinger

Co-Founder and Executive Chair of the Board of Directors, PointClickCare

Mike’s vison and leadership established PointClickCare as the first cloud-based health information system for the senior care industry. Today, the platform is the most-widely used system in the Long Term and Post-Acute Care space. Relentless in his pursuit to disrupt the healthcare status quo, Mike’s forward-thinking vision drove the organization to level silos across the healthcare ecosystem, creating North America’s largest care collaboration network. Designed with the ability to allow information to flow freely between care settings, the network makes dramatic improvements in care possible, especially for vulnerable populations.

In his role as Executive Chair, Mike continues to champion corporate culture, enhance governance, recruit diverse talent, and partner with internal and external boards and teams to solve critical health care challenges and propel PointClickCare forward as a world-class organization. In addition, Mike is a C100 board member and actively leverages his years of experience to coach rapidly-scaling tech companies and help them grow their business.

Dave Wessinger

Co-Founder and CEO, PointClickCare

Dave Wessinger is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PointClickCare. For more than 20 years, Dave has worked to transform the senior care technology industry and tackle complex challenges across the healthcare continuum.

In 2000, Dave co-founded PointClickCare with his brother Mike, pioneering healthcare’s digital transformation and driving improved outcomes for seniors and care teams through technology. Today, PointClickCare boasts  one of Canada’s most admired corporate cultures and employs over 1,500 employees who currently serve over 26,000 care providers, establishing PointClickCare as the largest cloud-based healthcare platform in North America.

Dave has earned recognition for the foresight and innovation that helps thousands reimagine the way technology can be used to communicate, collaborate, and improve care across the healthcare continuum. Instrumental in garnering recognition for PointClickCare as one of Deloitte’s best-managed companies for eight consecutive years, Dave also aided in earning PointClickCare a spot on Forbes Top Cloud 100 List for two consecutive years.

Bill Chartneski

EVP of Health System Solutions and Government Affairs, PointClickCare

Bill drives the health‐tech ecosystem’s expansion while improving patient outcomes and system productivity. Bill believes in the power of integrated care coordination and digitized ecosystems of care to enhance the patient journey and improve transitions along the continuum.

Prior to joining PointClickCare, Bill served as Chief Health Innovation Strategist for the Government of Ontario, Canada. He drove behavioral change in the provincial health system to improve its innovation receptor capabilities and used the government’s massive health investment as an economic driver to scale Ontario-based health tech companies. Bill also worked with AstraZeneca, one of the world’s largest innovative biopharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca, most recently, he led global government affairs and public policy out of London, UK. In Canada for AZ, he led integrated health solutions, pricing, market access, reimbursement, communications, strategic stakeholder engagement, and legal affairs. He was also a corporate and privacy law partner at one of Canada’s leading law firms.

JJ Rabinowich

Founder & Executive Director, The Ambassadors Group

Mr. Rabinowich has nearly 15 years of strategic experience working closely alongside political leaders and elected representatives. He has advised private corporations, public policy groups, and political organizations by providing results-focused guidance on regulation, legislation, and funding issues.

Mr. Rabinowich’s work with entities such as Agudath Israel of America, KRG Partners, and S4 Group, taught him how to successfully navigate the intricacies of public advocacy, and ultimately led to favorable legislative reforms in multiple arenas.

He has represented the interests of dozens of clients, and been involved in the proposing, drafting, and supporting of favorable legislation on a wide range of critical social issues including: medical intervention; end of life treatment; and religious freedom.

A graduate of Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, Mr. Rabinowich currently resides with his wife, three children, and precocious pet yorkie in Passaic, New Jersey.

Mandira Singh

SVP and General Manager, Acute and Payer, PointClickCare

With more than a decade of experience building, scaling, and leading companies in healthcare technology, Mandira is driven by her passion for advancing technology for the most underserved populations across the care continuum. In her current capacity, Singh oversees the acute and payer business unit, driving growth and success for the breadth of health system and health plan clients and scaling the PointClickCare network. Previously, as Chief Operating Officer, Singh led Product and Sales Enablement, in addition to the client facing teams at Collective Medical.

Mandira initially joined Collective as Head of Product, responsible for developing and deploying key features –including improved communication mechanisms for health plans and automated notifications that helped healthcare workers flag new risk factors for vulnerable populations at the point of care. Prior to joining Collective, Mandira was Executive Director of Product, Platform at athenahealth where she built athenahealth’s API-driven platform and created an industry leading developer experience. Singh earned the moniker of “Disruptor in Chief” by HIMSS Media and a top 10 healthcare leaders to watch on LinkedIn’s Next Wave list of young professionals. Prior to her work with Collective and athenahealth, Singh worked in investing, focusing on the health technology space as an analyst with Essex Woodlands Health Ventures.

Travis Palmquist

SVP and General Manager, Senior Care, PointClickCare

Travis leads the LTPAC market business strategy, delivering on bookings, revenue conversion, vision alignment, and segment expansion. During his PointClickCare tenure, Travis has harnessed his deep-seated industry knowledge to drive success as the General Manager of Senior Living, as well as in his role leading the industry market team.

Passionate about serving vulnerable populations, Travis has worked closely with the nation’s largest and most advanced senior living providers for over 25 years. Prior to joining PointClickCare, Travis served as an executive director, director of operations, and divisional director of business development of a national provider of senior care services. He then translated his understanding of post-acute facility operations to sales and executive leadership roles within healthcare technology. His unique background unites the nuances of post-acute facility operation with an evidential understanding of how technology can better the lives of individuals across the healthcare continuum.

Ben Zaniello, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer, PointClickCare

A practicing Infectious Disease physician, Ben is also a technologist at heart, focused on healthcare innovation for Population Health and the transition to value-based care for all patients. His passion for care transformation comes from firsthand experience. Most recently Ben worked at Providence St. Joseph Health, as their Chief Medical Information Officer in Population Health. He ran his division’s vendor selection and was responsible for the technical infrastructure that supports Providence’s risk-based contracts, including their landmark direct to employer contracts with Boeing and Intel. He also led projects on consumer experience optimization, EMR integration/data exchange with Providence’s strategic partners, and digital innovation projects with Providence’s Venture investment fund.

Prior to Providence, Dr. Zaniello did NIH-funded translational research in population health at the University of Washington while consulting in healthcare technology. Previously, he worked at the early Java start-up Marimba as well as the enterprise software company Trilogy in Austin, Texas, where he helped build their Healthcare and Financial Services practice. Dr. Zaniello continues to practice in medicine, focusing on Utah’s high-risk populations. His undergraduate work was at Stanford (in Architecture, German, and Computer Science) but he returned home to his native Kentucky for medical school at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He did his Internal Medicine residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center and Infectious Disease fellowship at the University of Washington where he also received his Master’s in Public Health.

Phil Fogg

President/CEO, Marquis Companies

As the fourth-generation of a family of long-term care providers, Phil Fogg has devoted his life to serving seniors. He created Marquis Companies in 1989, and the organization has grown to become one of the Northwest’s premiere providers of senior care services, with more than 4,000 employees and 28 skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living and memory care facilities. Marquis also provides home health and home care services through AgeRight at Home, enhances resident access to clinical support through AgeRight Clinical Services, and offers AgeRight Advantage, a Medicare Institutional Special Needs Plan.

In 2004, Phil founded Consonus Healthcare to provide rehab therapy, pharmacy and a wide range of consulting services. Consonus Rehab now serves more than 30,000 patients annually at 100 senior care facilities in 12 states, and Consonus Pharmacy fills over 4 million prescriptions each year for residents in more than 600 facilities in 13 states. He created the Vital Life Foundation in 2008 to bring greater meaning and purpose to the lives of staff, residents, clients and business partners. Throughout his career, Phil has been an active advocate for long-term care in Oregon, and an influential national voice in the nation’s capital. He currently serves as board chair of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), is a past president of the Oregon Health Care Association and has been honored by AHCA with the Joe Warner Patient Advocacy Award.

James R. Mault, MD, FACS Founder

CEO and Chairman, BioIntelliSense

Prior to BioIntelliSense, Dr. Mault served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Qualcomm Life for over five years, where his leadership responsibilities included Strategic Planning and Business Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, New Product Innovation, Clinical Program and Regulatory Oversight, Health Policy and Government Affairs, Global Spokesperson and Public Relations. Dr. Mault came to Qualcomm Life through its 2013 acquisition of HealthyCircles, a Care Coordination and Remote Patient Monitoring Platform Company founded and led by Dr. Mault in 2009. Prior to starting HealthyCircles, he was the Medical Director of the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft.

Dr. Mault has more than 35 years of experience in senior executive positions in the Health IT and Medical Device industry as well as clinical medicine. He has founded five Health IT and medical device companies, raising over $150 million in working capital and leading these companies to develop novel devices and software technologies, FDA approvals, strategic partnerships with numerous Fortune 500 companies, culminating in M&A or IPO exit transactions. He is the named inventor of over 80 issued and pending patents for a variety of novel health IT and medical device innovations. He has been board-certified in both General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, having specialized in heart and lung transplantation, thoracic oncology and critical care. He has conducted academic medical research under grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, and others. He is the author of more than 60 scientific articles, chapters and books in the published medical literature.

Dr. Mault received his B.S. in Biology and Medical Degree from the University of Michigan and conducted his General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery residency training at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Mault provides global thought-leadership on the future of technology and healthcare delivery, serving on numerous Boards and leadership positions including the Executive Board of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), Chairman of the American Telemedicine Association Clinical Trials Board and the Board of Trustees for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.

B.J. Boyle

Chief Product Officer, PointClickCare

B.J. Boyle serves as Chief Product Officer at PointClickCare. In his role, B.J. is responsible for the vision, plan, and execution of the entire PointClickCare product portfolio. B.J. has held key leadership positions at PointClickCare, previously serving as Vice President and General Manager of PointClickCare Acute & Payer division. In that role, he led a team focused on enabling hospitals, health systems, and their long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) partners to better communicate, collaborate, and share critical patient data.

With more than 15 years of experience and expertise in population health and analytics, B.J. is positioned to lead the future of PointClickCare product strategy to serve clients across the healthcare continuum.

Prior to joining PointClickCare, B.J. held the position of Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Matrix Solutions, Director of Solution Strategy and Development for Cerner, and Director of Product Management for Resource Systems. B.J. holds a BS in Information Systems from University of Mount Union, MBA from Point Park University, and an Executive Certificate in Healthcare Leadership from University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Brian Buys

Vice President – Product Management, Senior Care, PointClickCare

Brian is a healthcare ‘lifer’ with broad experience in clinical care, medical devices, and health IT. He is passionate about innovation and strategy for healthcare transformation—namely, the thoughtful deployment of technology to build community, optimize health, and improve outcomes for individuals and populations. Before joining PointClickCare, Brian had positions at 3Pound Health, Welch Allyn, Cardinal Health, The Battelle Memorial Institute, Philips Respironics, and Epic Systems.

Brian has a BS in Nursing from Calvin College and an MBA from Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business where he was recognized as a Weidler Scholar and awarded the W. Arthur Cullman MBA Fellowship.